Congratulations to the Wilson Leadership Team for placing 4th in the Sea Perch Challenge. They took 3rdplace for their Engineering Notebook, 3rd place for Obstacle Course, and were Reserve Champions in the Challenge Course.

Student led conferences are this Thursday and Friday, March 1 and 2.
There is no school on Thursday or Friday, but students should be attending their own conference and discussing their classroom performance.

We had three history quizzes and a door decorating contest.Congratulations winners! We also learned a new history fact every morning.On Friday February 23rd we had an assembly celebrating Excellence we welcomed community members, our Jazz Band, Chorus and student performers

The Wilson Middle School Science Olympiad Team competed in the State Competition 2/24/18 at NM Tech in Socorro. They placed 4th in the state & received the Spirit Award! This is such an amazing group of students & teachers and parents! Proud Principal!! #ADayinSchool#APS

Their focus is on bicycle education, with the goal of increasing the safety, self-sufficiency, and comfort of recreational, fitness, and utility riders alike. To meet their goal, Esperanza provides classes and programs of varied types and topics, including bicycle safety, road use and traffic law, mechanics, and riding skills. Esperanza accepts donations of bikes, bike parts, and other bicycle related items from the community. Donated bikes are refurbished and used in our many programs. By donating your old bike to Esperanza, it will get a second lease on life as transportation for someone else in Albuquerque. Esperanza does not sell bikes, but there are several ways that someone needing a bike can earn a bike to fit their transportation needs or get their existing bike back into serviceable condition.

Open Shop

Open Shop is a scheduled time in which the center is open to the general public. Anyone who attends has use of the shop’s work stations, tools and used bicycle parts needed to repair their bike. All of the spare parts that are available to Open Shop patrons are donated from cyclists in the community and all of the mechanical work is performed by the bike’s owner with instruction from the staff at Esperanza.

Build-a-Bike

Build-a-Bike is a youth oriented bicycle maintenance and safety class where children are taught how to build their own bike over the course of two weeks. Through this class, participants ages 10-17 learn the inner workings of their bike as they build it up from a bare frame. The maintenance aspects of the class are interwoven with bicycle safety basics and riding skills. Please contact the shop atesperanza@cabq.gov or (505)224-6668 for details or to register.

Earn-a-Bike

In this adult oriented education program, participants can earn a refurbished bike equipped with a bike helmet. To earn the bike, the participant must attend our City Cycling Class and our Roadside Maintenance Class. There is a class fee of $10 per class. Please contact the shop atesperanza@cabq.gov or (505)224-6668 for details or to register.

Work Study

Esperanza has partnered with several local high schools to provide Work Study opportunities for their students. Work Study students learn bicycle maintenance and shop skills while helping the Esperanza staff refurbish donated bikes for the Earn-a-Bike program. Please contact the shop atesperanza@cabq.gov or (505)224-6668 for details.

FREE BIKES: Inside the same building as Esperanza Bicycle Center there is a non-profit organization called Community Bike Recycling Program where you can get free bikes with helmets. Call the Director George Montoya (505-550-5604) to find out if they have any bikes available in the size that you need and arrange to pick up the bikes on the following Wednesday 9am-12pm.

Donations

Donations of bicycles, bike parts, tools, bike clothes, and other bicycle related products are always welcome. All of the bikes used in our programs are refurbished bikes that have been graciously donated to the shop from the community. If you have a bike that needs a new lease on life, we can find it a new home

Free admission applies to general museum admission only. Fees for special exhibits and events still apply on free times.

GENERAL ADMISSION

Adults: $4 ($1 discount with valid NM ID)

Children 4-12: $1

Children 13-18: $3

Children 19-64: $3

Seniors 65+: $2

3) NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/visitors/hours-and-admission

Hours: Every Day 9am-5pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day

FREE ADMISSION DAYS

The Museum is free to New Mexico residents (with ID) on the 1st Sunday of every month.

(Note: The Museum will be closed January 1st, due to the New Year's Day holiday.)

Admission to the Museum is free to all Veterans (with ID) on Veterans Day, November 11th.

Regular charge still applies to the DynaTheater and Planetarium venues on these days.

Seniors 60+ are FREE on Wednesdays.

Free for Veterans on Veteran’s Day

GENERAL ADMISSION

Adults: $7

Seniors 60+: $6

Children 4-12: $4

4) CORONADO STATE MONUMENT IN BERNALILLO In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado—with 500 soldiers and 2,000 Indian allies—entered the Rio Grande valley near this site. Searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, he instead found a dozen villages inhabited by prosperous native farmers. http://www.nmmonuments.org/coronado

Hours: Wednesday-Monday 8:30am-5pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day

FREE ADMISSION DAYS

Sunday admission for New Mexico residents with ID is FREE.

Wednesday admission is FREE to New Mexico Seniors with ID.

Children 16 and under are always admitted FREE.

GENERAL ADMISSION: $3

A combination ticket, good for admission to both Jémez and Coronado Historic Sites is available for $5.

I am very proud to say that our Science Olympiad Team did an excellent job this past Saturday (2/3) at the Regional Competition, held at UNM. Not only did our kids medal in 20 out of 22 events but they also earned the 2nd place Overall Team Trophy! These are the events we medaled in and the kids that earned those medals for us:

Parents need to drop off students in front of the school through the drop off lane on Cardenas. Please remember that the speed limit is 15 mph in the school zone. Thank you for helping us keep students safe.

Beginning Monday, students will not be allowed on campus after between 3:05 pm and 5:30 pm unless they are in an afterschool program. This does include all areas of campus to include the basketball courts and the soccer fields. Sign-up and attendance of the programs are free. Registration forms are available in the office.

Wilson’s Science Olympiad team will be competing this Saturday, February 3rd at UNM! Last year the team came in second place, and they’re looking to make a strong showing again this year! The Science Olympiad team is open to all interested Wilson Students, and is run by our wonderful Science Teacher, Ms. Freeman.

We will be holding a Wilson Gifted Advisory Council meeting to discuss scheduling and courses for next year.
The meeting will be this Thursday, February 1 from 6:00 to 7:30 in the Library.
Families are encouraged to attend and discuss your students needs, knowing that we will not have a gifted Science class next year.
I encourage you to invite families of 5th graders as well. We will be working together to plan our classes for next year.

A variety of drop off points are available for students riding the 5:30 activity bus through February 22th. Students must be attending a sponsored after school program. For more information contact Shanlynn Bolling (CSI/EDAP/YMCA) at sbolling7@icloud.com or (505)366-3599.

We hope you can join us at Wilson Middle School for our yearly Thanksgiving Lunch on Monday, November 20th. The sixth graders will have lunch at 11 am, seventh graders at 11:30 am and 8th graders at 12:30 pm. If you have more than one student, please try to attend the earlier lunch time. Tickets for lunch will be available for purchase on Monday.

We are hoping to help many of our Wilson Families have a Happy Thanksgiving. Please send your student to school with any donated food items now through November 20. Sixth graders are collecting canned veggies, cranberry sauce and gravy. Seventh grade is collecting for stuffing, rice, beans and pasta and eighth grade is collecting for potatoes, rolls. We would be thankful for anything you can do to help.The advisory class that brings in the most canned goods will be entitled to a prize.

The Leadership Cadets recently competed in our first Competition of the year against 11 of APS Middle School Leadership Programs. The Fall Boot Camp Physical Training Competition at Van Buren MS.
TEAM RESULTS
-Sit Ups : First Place
-Push Ups : First Place
-800 Meter Run : Second Place
-Relay Race 10x100 : Second Place (Actually won by a significant time but Lost due to a technicality)
-Obstacle Course : Second Place
-Tug of War : First Place
-Knockout : First Place
-Overall Team : First Place
We also had numerous Cadets receive Individual Medals.
The Cadets have been working extremely hard and their efforts have paid off!!

After school programs have begun! ASAP is Monday through Thursday, Pokémon + Yearbook are on Mondays, Minecraft and Debate are on Tuesday/Thursday, Science Tutoring is on Tuesdays, Comic Book, Science Olympiad and Math Tutoring are on Wednesdays.

Please come to the cafeteria after school to attend these great programs.

After school programs have begun! ASAP is Monday through Thursday, Pokémon + Yearbook are on Mondays, Minecraft and Debate are on Tuesday/Thursday, Science Tutoring is on Tuesdays, Comic Book, Science Olympiad and Math Tutoring are on Wednesdays.

Please come to the cafeteria after school to attend these great programs.

-The Near Space Challenge is a STEM competition amongst APS middle school leadership programs. They will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays to create a container that will be launched in a high-altitude balloon. The container will carry and return four eggs, to an altitude of 100,000 feet! That's twenty-one miles!!! The Near Space Challenge will be held at WMS during the first week of October. Students do not need to be in the Leadership program to participate.

-Archery will start after school, Tuesday, September 12th. The first archery season competition will be held the second week of October. You do not need to be in the Leadership program to participate.

-Students interested in serving on this year's student council, see Mr. Cogburn for an information packet.

-September is Attendance Awareness Month and to start it off right, we will be doing an attendance poster board contest. You can do the board as an individual, as a group, or as an advisory class. Any supplies you need can be obtained from the FRC. There will be prizes for the winner of the contest, and we look forward to seeing all of your creativity in action!!! If you have any questions please contact Miss Bowen. The deadline to submit your poster board is the 28th of September.

8/14-8/18 Volleyball players, listen up! Physicals need to be completed and turned into Coach Noce or Coach Topley ASAP. Tryouts start the week of August 21st @3:30. You can not try out without a physical. See Coach Topley in rm116 in the main office if you have any questions.

There are have five different groups meeting in the Albuquerque area at different times and locations. There is no registration or need to RSVP. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: Melinda Shultz, Program Manager, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren at 505-243-2551

Need plants? Want FREE compost? Have garden questions? Join us for a celebration of all things local, sustainable, edible, and growing!

To get you set for a summer of fun, the DOT Garden will have hundreds of different desert adapted veggies, herbs, flowers, and native plants for sale along with hand-crafted body-care products and more.

Plus, we’re bringing together other local artisans, farmers, and garden experts to offer a one-stop-shop for all your summer prep needs.